job rant

[mellowtigger]

I need to find a new job.  I don't mind getting paid to work only 20 hours per week.  I can cope with getting paid less than a fulltime minimum wage job.

A part-time job that requires on-call duty, however, is a concept that just should not exist. 

1. A 20-hours-per-week job should not require wholesale shifts in my non-work life to accommodate an uncertain schedule.
2. After-hours work does not earn me time-and-a-half pay like it does for a full-time person.

I've been trying to attend a local science fiction convention this weekend.  I walked out of most of the sessions today to handle issues remotely.  I managed to avoid traveling east to Saint Paul or west to Buffalo.  After getting 2 work-stoppage kinds of calls back-to-back, I was in a bad mood and just left the conference entirely to come home and rest.  Sure enough, shortly after waking up, I get a site internet outage.  I just spent 20 minutes on the phone with a Qwest person, before they decided to give up and refer the issue to their central office to fix.  (Fyi, this ticket has been open since 9/1/2009 because Qwest can't keep this circuit alive for us.)

There's supposed to be a Cabaret happening right now at the sci-fi convention.  I am not there.

I need to find a new job.

Comments

[dodecadragon.livejournal.com]

Dean says quite a few jobs may be coming up at his work.

http://www.mnhs.org/about/jobs/index.html

Looks like just one there right now though, but it may be something up your alley.

[mellowtigger]

(And at 1am, I was woken up by a phone call from Qwest. *sigh*)

Thanks, I'll be sure to check there periodically.

[mellowtigger]

p.p.s. It's 11am, and I've already had half a dozen pages since 8am. I haven't even bothered dressing for a trip to the convention today. *more sighs*

[geometrician.livejournal.com]

It was great to see you again, there, when you could be there. All the best in your search!

[foeclan.livejournal.com]

I know I've mentioned it before, but dunno if you've gone there. Indeed.com (http://indeed.com) is a good search engine that crawls job, company, non-profit, university and likely other sites for job openings.